Trump, Bourdain, Facebook: Your Weekend Briefing

President Trump and Kim Jong-un are scheduled to meet there on Tuesday. The sit-down will be a long-anticipated test of Mr. Trump’s conviction that he can slice through decades of diplomatic orthodoxy and strike a grand bargain with North Korea, a feat that eluded his three immediate predecessors.

But first, Mr. Trump had to get through a Group of 7 meeting with the leaders of America’s closest allies. He refused to sign a joint statement negotiated during the meeting, saying on Twitter that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada was “very dishonest and weak.”

Our Washington correspondents write that with his America First agenda, Mr. Trump has driven a wedge between the U.S. and its allies, ceding leadership and its seat at the table.

Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, who died this past week. Escalating suicide rates have affected nearly every demographic group and place, according to new federal data.CreditLeft: Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press; Right: Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press

2. The suicides of two celebrities — the fashion designer Kate Spade, and then the chef and CNN host Anthony Bourdain — stunned the world. Here are our obituaries of Ms. Spade and Mr. Bourdain.

Each death prompted an outpouring of emotion from across the globe. Ms. Spade’s fans recounted how her bright handbags were their first “grown-up” big-ticket purchase. And our TV critic wrote that Mr. Bourdain’s appeal was in how he explored culture through cuisine, and relished all of it.

California got the most attention: Democrats had feared disaster there, in part because of the state’s unusual open primary system. But they averted one with help from the national party. Above, supporters of the Democratic candidate Mike Levin at a watch party in Oceanside, Calif.

The state’s Republicans avoided their own worst-case scenario as well, securing a spot in the governor’s race, which should help bring G.O.P. voters to the polls.

It’s an extraordinary step that few, if any, other departments in the country have pursued: The city has opened up feeds from dozens of closed-circuit cameras to the public, asking viewers to assist the force by watching over the city and reporting anything suspicious.

Officials say the Citizen Virtual Patrol, as the program is called, is a move toward transparency. But it has provoked alarm among civil liberties groups and privacy advocates.

We wanted to know what it feels like to participate in these pageants, and why many compete again and again. We asked our readers and heard from more than 170 competitors, from Tiny Miss Snellville 1974 to International Mr. Leather 2015. Here is a selection of their stories.

And we’ve launched Offsides, a twice-weekly newsletter about the World Cup, which starts Thursday. Sign up here and the writer Musa Okwonga will send you lively updates on the scores, the social issues and the hidden stories of the tournament.

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10. Finally, The Tony Awards are at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, broadcast on CBS from Radio City Music Hall. Our survey of voters suggests that “The Band’s Visit” and the new Harry Potter show, above, are likely to win.

In this collection of our best weekend reads, we talk to a Broadway producer up for a Tony, chronicle love in New York City and learn about the players we’ll see in the World Cup.